Something we saw yesterday: a sign at City Provisions announcing a Saturday afternoon tasting event featuring Bill Kim from Belly Shack (as well as Urban Belly) and Jeni’s Ice Cream from Columbus, Ohio. Does this mean we finally get to have kimchi ice cream?...

Trying to keep up with Chicago’s street festival and outdoor market circuit can cause brain cramps, or at least rampant indifference. You’ve seen one beer tent or gourmet crepe stand, you’ve seen them all. But sometimes — okay, rarely — something new comes...

Dear Chicago Food Scene, Many condolences on your rough night at the James Beard Awards. We’re also extremely disappointed in the night’s events. Not about the lack of medals you took home, but about the way you behaved, or should we say, the way you didn’t behave....

[slideshow] As once documented by Seinfeld (and probably countless others), every big-city neighborhood has a plot of commercial space that can’t sustain a long-term business. For Ravenswood, that space is on the corner of Wilson and Hermitage. Recently, a new...

The bacon-ification of America continues, and if you are one the few still on the bacon bandwagon, we believe it’s time to get off. Bacon’s days of being buzz worthy are over. This has been said before, specifically in 2009 in Seattle’s “The Stranger.” Back...

If there’s one thing worse than showing up to a BYO restaurant without the libations, it’s showing up to Chicago’s best BYO establishment, Taste of Peru, without the Pisco. Pisco is a South American brandy, and certainly not something you’d think to bring to a BYO...